How do I add all my old backups to the main screen?
I've been using Acronis on and off since version 8. For the past 7 years or so, my primary backup solution has been a Windows Home Server (original release) with occasional Acronis backups for specific puposes -- including a lot of virtual machines. Now that I'm migrating most of my machines to Windows 10, WHS will no longer be in the picture so I'm trying to set up Acronis to handle everything.
I just installed version 2016 (3-user license) and I'm very, very confused. Most of the navigation icons point to a cloud but all of my backups are on a NAS server. In Acronis 2014, I could see all the backups for all my systems in one place. If they weren't in the same folder, I could still add it. How do I do that in Acronis 2016? When I click "Add Backup", it tries to set up a new backup for the same machine. I have a set of 2014 backups for one machine that was wiped then migrated to Windows 10. I'd like to add those backups to <whatever it's called> so that I can extract files to restore to the newly created machine (which now has a different name) any time I like. I also want access to backups from other machines to restore other files. I cannot figure out how to do that in 2016. As things are now, I have to keep one machine on Windows 7 just to access/extract files from WHS.
I'd also like to know the proper way to do a one-off backup. I usually do a "save forever" backup when I first set up a machine and sometimes just before I make a major change. These backups are separate from the routine incremental/full backup chain and may be retained outside of the normal cleanup period. I tried using "save as" to change the name of the backup job and checking the box for "no schedule" but when I created a new job with a schedule, it proceeded to do append them to my other backup. Am I missing something? Is there anyway to tell Acronis cleanup to never auto-delete a specific backup (excluding the initial one)?
Thank you.
Athena
